Principal/Sr Principal DevOps Engineer (*TS/SCI & Poly required)

Requisition ID: R10168506

• Category: Engineering
• Location: Morrisville, North Carolina, United States of America | Aurora, Colorado, United States of America | Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America
• Clearance Type: Polygraph
• Telecommute: No - Teleworking not available for this position
• Shift: Days (United States of America)
• Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time
• Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available
• Positions Available: 1

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way.

The Payload and Ground Systems, a division within Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector, is known for pushing the boundaries of innovation and redefining engineering capabilities. Our team is chartered with providing the skills and innovative technologies to develop, design, produce, and sustain optimized product lines across the sector.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSP) seeks to find a DevOps Engineer in the Payload and Ground Systems Division Engineering organization supporting Integrated National Systems (INS) Business Unit (BU) to support a Ground program. This position may be located at our Morrisville, NC, Fairfax, VA, or Aurora CO sites.

This position requires being onsite and does not support remote or hybrid work.

Job responsibilities will include:

• Write/edit scripts (INF as code) to aid with configuration maintenance of Gitlab/Gitlab-ci.
• Automate configuration maintenance (CM) process and support CM for elements.
• Maintain security vulnerabilities software, review scans, and process to automate issues.
• Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure to support rapid maturation and deployment of capability.
• Integrate development pipelines leveraging automation with test-driven development tools.
• Implement provisioning and deployment techniques via packaging, componentizing, or Cloud distribution.
• Function with agile principles to execute efficiently in an environment of continuous feedback.
• Ensure implementation of Software Configuration Management (SCM), code quality, and code coverage with automated testing.

This requisition may be filled at either a level 3 (Principal) or a level 4 (Sr Principal), depending on the candidate’s experience as laid out in the basic qualifications detailed below as well as the interview assessment.

Basic Qualifications

• Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance with an active Polygraph at time of application.
• Must have a completed STEM degree (science, technology, engineering, or mathematics).
• Level 3 (Principal): 5 Years of relevant experience with a completed Bachelor's (STEM).
• Level 4 (Sr Principal): 9 Years of relevant experience with a completed Bachelor's (STEM).
• Must have experience in the following:
• Cloud Computing
• Cloud DevOps
• Linux System Administration
• Current CompTIA Security+ certification or other IAT Level 2 certificate.
• Must be willing to complete a Counterintelligence polygraph.

Preferred Qualifications

• Sys Admin functions (password reset, debug environment issues).
• Infrastructure-as-code.
• Ansible, K8s, Docker, Gitlab, TerraForm, Helm.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) System Administration.
• IAT Level II Certification.
• CI Poly or FSP.

To better support our employee’s work/life balance, most NG worksites support a 9/80 work schedule.

With us, you’ll discover a culture of curiosity and collaboration that will have you Defining Possible from the day you start. Explore your future and launch your career today.

Salary Range: $97,500 - $160,900
Salary Range 2: $121,000 - $199,600
Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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